The Fidg’t Visualizer allows you to play around with your network. You interface with the Visualizer through Flickr and LastFM tags, using any tag to create a Magnet. Once a Tag Magnet is created, members of the network will gravitate towards it if they have photos or music with that same Tag. For good measure, [...]
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Watercouleur Park, 2007, by French artists group Qubo Gas, is the 11th commission by Tate for its Net Art Programme. It is an interactive graphic composition made of layers of drawings. The order in which the drawn landscapes appear is random. The vegetation contained in each of the landscapes is also a random element. [...]
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Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal has locked himself into a studio with live webcams for the month of May.
The public can watch him 24/7 over a live webcam; and if they choose, visitors to his website can shoot him with a remote controlled paintball gun. Log on, shoot at an Iraqi. Bilal’s installation - titled Domestic [...]
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The winner Luis Asín with MUSAC - Museo de arte contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Geir Brendeland
Miran Kambic
Here are a selection of the winners of the Mies van der Rohe awards 2007, named after one of the masters of Modernist architecture and Bauhaus. It seems functionalism and geometry is still in effect in regard to Gehry’s [...]
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6. Instant lottery ticket purchase line
12. Selling blood becomes the livelihood of some peasants
43. Street barber in a demolished room
58. Each day, several dozen students have to cross this bridge four times
Sad state of life in China, and blind nationalists are blaming Taiwanese people for showing these [...]
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Image scanned from a French fashion magazine from 1977 by Martijn Konijn.
The first 4 months have gone by and indeed 2007 has been lucrative for music. As the collective memory is so low these days and there’s so much production and hype, I want to emphasize the better stuff once more. I’ve posted [...]
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streetart from Bloomington, Indiana
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Ma Jun, Born in 1974 in Quingdao, China. Graduated in 2003 from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. The maker of my new TV/Radio set and more!. Absolutely terrific works on Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Chinese pop art? .
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Spring is here and Istanbul’s gonna celebrate it with the annual Hidrellez fest. Prepare for the Balkan & Gypsy invasion. More info here, Kocani Orkestar will be playing too.
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SPACE INVADERS is the second video performance of the GAME OVER Project, directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency).Here’s his version of Pong which is just as good.
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